Nordic Society for
Middle Eastern Studies

• 9-11.6.04, Exeter: "Transferring best practice: an international workshop on the comparatives study of refugee return programs with reference to the Palestinian context". mick.dumper@exeter.ac.uk *
• 14-20.6.04, Istanbul: "Pouvoirs et territoires en Turquie contemporaine" Session d'études doctorales. Inst Français Etds Anatoliennes. Projets avant 30.3.04. elise.massicard@laposte.net *
• 17-19.6.04, Pescara, Italy: "Mediterranean Medina". Abstracts by 1.3.04. mediterraneanmedina@yahoo.it *
• 22-24.6.04, Jerusalem: "The Turks and Palestine: A 1000 years of relations". Hebrew U. amitai@h2.hum.huji.ac.il
• 22-25.6.04, Tanger: "Rethinking Jewish culture and society in the Maghrib". American Inst Maghribi Stds. emilyrg@uclink.berkeley.edu
• 23-25.6.04, Zaghouan: "L'Etat, la société et la religion au Maghreb contemporain" Fondation Temimi. temimi.fond@gnet.tn
• 24-25.6.04, New York: "The heritage of the high caliphate: Dinars, dirhams and coppers of the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods, ca. 700-950". American Numismatic Soc. Papers by 5.3.04. bates@amnumsoc.org
• 24-28.6.04, St. Petersburg: "The study of Persian culture in the west: 16th to early 20th century". State Hermitage Museum. http://www.iranheritage.org/hermitageconference, info@iranheritage.org
• 28.6-3.7.04, Paris: 8th int'l cong of coptic studies. U Paris IV, Catholic Inst. Materials and production, Text and images http://www.irht.cnrs.fr/congres_copte2004.htm, congres.2004@irht.cnrs.fr
• 2-4.7.04, Lyon: "Mythes et réalités des mondes musulmans. Narrations, transcriptions, représentations". AFEMAM conf. Propositions avant 20.4.04. denoix@mmsh.univ-aix.fr *
• 4-6.7.04, London: "Domination, expression and liberation in the Middle East". BRISMES conf. SOAS. Reg. by 25.6.04. http://www.lmei.soas.ac.uk/brismes, meconf@soas.ac.uk
• 14-16.7.04, Reading: "Europe and the Islamic world: Cultural transformations, 1453-1798". Early Modern Res Ctr, U Reading. Papers by 1.3.04, later considered. m.p.v.hutchings@reading.ac.uk li> 23-24.7.04, Santa Barbara: "Harem: perception and reality of life in Ottoman and Qajar courts". SB City Coll. www.qajarstudies.org, president@qajarstudies.org.
• 16-21.8.04, Moscow: 37th cong Int'l Union for Oriental and African Res (ICANAS). Papers by 1.9.03. ivran@orc.ru
• 18-21.8.04, Honolulu: "Islam and Asian business" conf. rochelle@cba.hawaii.edu
• 3-4.9.04, Brisbane: "Islam and society: perspectives and prospects". U Queensland. Paper deadline 1.6.04. r.marcotte@uq.edu.au, http://www.uq.edu.au/hprc/ipap
• 3-4.9.04, Dublin: "Metals and metalworking in Islamic Iran". Chester Beatty Library. http://www.cbl.ie, james.allan@ashmolean-museum.oxford.ac.uk
• 9-11.9.04, Salt Lake City: "Transitions and Inequality in the 21st Century", ME & Central Asia politics, economics and society conf. U Utah. Proposals by 15.5.04. http://www.utah.edu/CentralAsia-MiddleEast/, Middle-East@utah.edu *
• 10-11.9.04, Birmingham: "Nationalism, historiography and the (re)construction of the past". Ctr Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Stds, U Birmingham. nationalism_conference@hotmail.com *
• 20-24.9.04, Halle: 11. DAVO-Kongress und 29. Deutscher Orientalistentag. http://www.dot2004.de/
• 24-26.9.04, Fairfax, VA: "Revisioning modernity: Challenges and possibilities for Islam"33 ann'l conf AMSS. George Mason U. Papers deadline 28.5.04. http://www.amss.net, conferences@amss.net
• 26.9.04, London: "Imam Mahdi: Justice and globalization". Inst Islamic Stds. Papers by 31.5.04. iis@islamic-studies.org
• October 04, Amman: "Citizenshops and identites". CERMOC-IPS. Palestinians as trans-national community. Abstracts by 1.5.03. drr@u.arizona.edu
• 3-6.10.04 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan: "The role and place of the Turkic civilization among the world civilizations" 2nd int'l cong Turkic Civilization. Reg by 30.3.04. turkuygar@manas.kg *
• 4-5.10.04, Amman: "Water resources and environmental protection in the ME and North Africa". German-Arabic Soc Environmental Stds, et al. Abstracts by 15.4.04. zereini@dag-umwelt.de *
• 5-6.10.04, Washington: 58th ann'l conf ME Inst. mideasti@mideasti.org
• 8-10.10.04, Copenhagen: "Europe and the Middle East: a new entente?". 6th Nordic ME conf. Papers by 1.6.04. http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/nsm/cph04.html
• 8-10.10.04, London: "The Muwashshah: History, Origins and Present Practices". SOAS http://www.geocities.com/muwashshah
• 14-17.10.04, Bloomington, IN: 5th ann'l conf Central Eurasian Soc. Humanities, Social science. Papers by 2.4.04. http://cess.fas.harvard.edu, cess2004@indiana.edu
• 15-16.10.04, London: Soc. for Arabian Stds, Red Sea Project II. Migration, travel, language, art, religion, etc. j.c.m.starkey@durham.ac.uk
• 20-23.10.04, Aix-en-Provence: "Evolution des parlers urbains arabes, l'impact des mouvements migratoires et des changements sociaux". Papers by 20.10.03. miller@mmsh.univ-aix.fr
• 22-24.10.04, Beirut: "The Beirut Conf on public spaces". SSRC (US), AUB. Papers by 1.6.04. mena@ssrc.org
• 29-30.10.04, London: The Red Sea Project II: "People of the Red Sea". Soc Arabian Stds. Ancient to early modern period. Travel, material culture, language, etc. j.c.m.starkey@durham.ac.uk
• 10.11.04, Buenos Aires: 5th conf on ME. ME Dpt, U la Plata. Papers by 1.7.04. http://www.iri.edu.ar, iri@isis.unlp.edu.ar
• 12-13.11.04, Rabat: "Nouveaux espaces, nouveaux réseaux en Méditerranée". Groupe de Recherches sur les Espaces et les Réseaux du Bassin Méditerranéen. Comm. avant 15.5.04. laura.verdelli@tiscali.it *
• 19-20.11.04, Torino: "Clusters, districts and tangible. Intangible and material culture heritage in the non-EU Mediterranean countries". U Torino. www.eblacenter.unito.it, walter.santagata@unito.it
• 19-22.11.04, San Fransisco: MESA Conference. mesana@u.arizona.edu , http://www.mesa.arizona.edu
• 7-9.1.05, Philadephia: 25th ann'l meet, MEEA. http://www.rcf.usc.edu/~nugent/meea, esfahani@uiuc.edu
• 8-9.1.05, Princeton: "Rethinking culture in the Ottoman 18th cy". Papers by 1.5.04. dsajdi@alcor.concordia.ca
• 16-20.3.05, Firenze: 6th Mediterranean social and political res meet. Robert Schuman Ctr. http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mspr2005/Index.shtml
• 26-28.3.05, Kuwait: Int'l conf on Discourse analysis. Kuwait U. Papers by 30.3.04. http://fa.kuniv.edu.kw/kwdiscourse, info@kuc01.kuniw.edu.kw
• 1-2.4.05, Atlanta, GA: "Muslim's experiences of globalization". ME Ctr for Peace, Georgia State U. Papers by 30.9.04. bghmari@gsu.edu.
• 8-10.4.05, Princeton, NJ: "Ibn Taymiyyah and his times". msahemd@fas.harvard.edu
• 31.7-4.8.05, Jerusalem: 14th world cong Jewish studies. http://www.jewish-studies.org
• 12-14.10.05, Istanbul: "Ottoman and Atlantic empires in the early modern world". Bogazici U. Papers by 1.4.04. Andrew Cayton, Dept History, Miami U, Oxford OH 45056, USA.
• 19-22.11.05, Washington: MESA Conference. mesana@u.arizona.edu , http://www.mesa.arizona.edu
• 17-19.11.06, Boston: MESA Conference. mesana@u.arizona.edu, http://www.mesa.arizona.edu